Entry 176

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Harry S. Truman

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Sam Ewing

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

Thomas Jefferson

Entry 175

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e. e. cummings

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
e. e. cummings

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e. e. cummings

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
e. e. cummings

Entry 174

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Amelia Burr

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Norman Cousins

Entry 173

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Erich Fromm

I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.

Jack Handy

You gotta be pretty desperate to make it with a robot.
Homer Simpson

Entry 172

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
William Cowper

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Hedda Hopper

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.

Walter Lippman

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
Benjamin Disraeli

Entry 171

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes.

George Bernard Shaw

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

Benjamin Franklin

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

Oliver Herford

Entry 170

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman


To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana


Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau

Style is the dress of thoughts.
Lord Chesterfield

Entry 169

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw


The past is like a river flowing out of sight; the future is an ocean filled with opportunity and delight.
Anna Hoxie

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Character is fate.
Heraclitus of Ephesus

Entry 168

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Thomas de Quincey

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Grant Wood

When a cow laughs, does milk come out her nose?

Author Unknown

I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.

Anthony Clark

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

Fred Allen

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. George Bernard Shaw

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

Mark Twain

Who was the first guy that looked at a cow and said, "I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?"

Bill Watterson

Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.

Greek Proverb

Entry 167

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.
The Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5-7


But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
The Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5-7


Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
The Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5-7

Entry 166

The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working.

Unknown

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public.

Mark Twain

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice;nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Lord Acton

Entry 165

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Adolph Hitler

A tiger can smile

A snake will say it loves you

Lies make us evil

Chuck Palahniuk

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Prince Otto

Entry 164

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Due to the lack of experienced trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed for three weeks.

Unknown


Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
Roger Zelazny

Even the end of the world is described as if it were only an exceptionally hot afternoon.

Peter Mullen

Entry 163

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Elliot

It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Voltaire

All God's angels come to us disguised.

James Russell Lowell

Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place.

Carrie Latet

Entry 162

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Sagan

Listen to the voice of a dolphin,
and you shall learn the secret
to mankinds' survival: PEACE!!!
Mallory Watson

To the dolphin alone, nature has given
that which the best philosophers seek:
Friendship for no advantage. Though it
has no need of help from any man,
it is a genial friend to all and
has helped mankind.
Plutarch

Entry 161

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli

Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson

Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz